Police said a Bethlehem man molested a boy several times over several months in 2014.

A 44-year-old Bethlehem man told a 12-year-old boy he was teaching the boy "how to be a man" during a series of sexual assaults last year, according to police.

Lorenzo Culver Jr. of the 200 block of Ettwein Street in Bethlehem, was arrested Wednesday, nearly a year after police first interviewed the boy. Culver was being held in Northampton County prison under $250,000 bail.

According to court records, police first interviewed the boy July 17, 2014.

Police wrote in court records that he boy told them Culver claimed "he was teaching the victim how to be a man."